Inside the Russian Army

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The firm specialises in hot air balloons but also produces weapon models including low-altitude radar machines.

A T-80 tank weighs 154 pounds, costs about £10,000, and packs down into just two duffel bags.

An entire battalion of 31 fake tanks costs around £300,000 and takes just two and a half hours to set up.

Rusbal director Maria Oparina admitted there was "a lot of skepticism" at first but now the company is exporting the balloons around the world.

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The blow-up balloon airforce is intended to fool surveillance jets

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They are supposedly believable up to 200 metres away

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Aleksei A. Komarov, stood next to a life sized mock a Mig-31

The firm made around £2million of inflatable S-300 antiaircraft missile systems to sell to Iran.

It started life as a Russian toy company in 1993 by a hot air balloon enthusiast before straying into military replicas.

Wartime deceptions have been common practice for centuries, with the allied forces tricking the Germans into thinking it was going to launch the D-Day landing from another part of France using dolls instead of soldiers.